Tag: Vince Matthews
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Tokyo 2020 costs now estimated at $15.8 billion total; USOPC working...
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THE TICKER: USOPC kneels with its Racial & Social Justice Council; troubled AIBA votes...
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LANE ONE: Australian and Irish athletes say no protests on the podium, while USOPC...
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LANE ONE: Only half-baked: U.S. athlete statement demands that they must be heard, then...
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LANE ONE: It isn’t easy being an Olympic athlete in almost any sport, and...
It’s hard enough to be an Olympic athlete, especially from hyper-competitive teams like the United States, China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and elsewhere.
It got...
LANE ONE: Edwin Moses is right when he says protests can’t be stopped, but...
While the Tokyo organizers fret about the potential impact of the expanding coronavirus threat to this summer’s Olympic Games in Japan, discussions about the...
LANE ONE: Bach beams as IOC’s Athletes’ Commission issues athlete protest regulations for Tokyo...
In late 1981, International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch sent a letter to German fencer Thomas Bach and others, stating “I have decided...
TSX DAILY: USOPC Hall of Fame elects Smith and Carlos, making athlete sanction threats...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 25 September 2019 ≡
| 1. | LANE ONE: USOPC Hall of Fame committee selections renders USOPC's protest sanctions toothless
Much was made...
The “other” anthem protest: Wayne Collett, Vince Matthews and the 1972 Games
PALM DESERT, September 29, 2017 – The current furor over sitting, standing, protesting and counter-protesting of the U.S. national anthem is old news for...